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More than 40,000 individuals have signed a White House petition calling for Minnesota dental practitioner Walter Palmer to be removed to Zimbabwe to face equity for slaughtering a beloved lion named Cecil.Lawful specialists and legal experts say it could happen.

“Ongoing investigations to date suggest that the killing of the lion was illegal since the land owner was not allocated a lion on his hunting quota for 2015. Therefore, all persons implicated in this case are due to appear in court facing poaching charges,” peruses a joint proclamation discharged by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management and the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe.

The landowner and the expert seeker who professedly tricked Cecil out of the Hwange National Park so that Palmer could shoot him with a bow and bolt – and after that track him for 40 more hours before shooting him with a weapon – were in court on Wednesday. The BBC reports that the two were each allowed $1,000 safeguard and face conceivable sentences of up to 15 years in jail.

A representative for Zimbabwe police told The Associated Press that Palmer is presently in the line of sight.

“We arrested two people, and now we are looking for Palmer in connection with the same case,” said Charity Charamba.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in an announcement on Wednesday that the organization “is profoundly worried about the late killing of Cecil the lion. We are as of now assembling actualities about the issue and will help Zimbabwe authorities in whatever way asked.”

Herbert V. Larson Jr., professor of international law at Tulane, said that he believes Palmer could be extradited, although it’s not clear if Zimbabwe would go through with what would likely be a time-consuming and costly process. His advice to Palmer is to hire the best Zimbabwean lawyer he can and go back on his own accord to “plead guilty, and pay a huge fine, and make restitution, and a public apology.”

Right now, Cecil’s executioner seems, by all accounts, to be sequestered from everything, as “dental practitioner seekers” furnished with stuffed lions, in addition to a huge number of correspondents, are stalking outside his home and office.

Lewis & Clark law educator Daniel Rohlf, a specialist in natural life law, said that he comprehends the feeling – and trusts that Cecil’s champions will take this minute to consider how they may battle for untamed life all the more by and large.

“I know people are really fired up about Cecil, but poaching for the illegal wildlife trade does far, far more harm to African wildlife,” Rohlf said. “And Republicans in Congress are trying to block new restriction on ivory trade in the U.S.”

A sign posted on the door at River Bluff Dental on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 in Bloomington, Minn. River Bluff Dental owner Dr. Walter Palmer has gotten criticism over the sport killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe named “Cecil.” (Renee Jones Schneider/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)